Title 21: Food and Drugs
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/ Subpart F - Therapeutic Devices / § 876.5895 Ostomy irrigator.
§ 876.5895 Ostomy irrigator.
(a) Identification. An ostomy irrigator is a device that consists of a container for fluid, tubing with a cone-shaped tip or a soft and flexible catheter with a retention shield and that is used to wash out the colon through a colostomy, a surgically created opening of the colon on the surface of the body.
(b) Classification. Class II (special controls). The device is exempt from the premarket notification procedures in subpart E of part 807 of this chapter subject to the limitations in § 876.9.